Oral history interview with Sally Michael Avery, 1979

Biographical Note

Painter; interviewee married Milton Avery

Scope and Contents

Childhood, family and education; marriage to Milton Avery; daughter, March; career as painter; reminiscences of Milton Avery: family background, influence of childhood and nature on painting, work for Works Progress Administration, prizes, painting philosophy, techniques and uses of media, work habits, relationship with art critics, associations with galleries; Avery family members' exhibitions and retrospectives, 1928-78; recollections of Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Marsden Hartley, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Hirshhorn and others

Subjects

• Art, Modern--20th century.
• Art criticism.
• Art galleries, Commercial.
• Artists--Interviews.
• Avery, Milton, 1885-1965.
• Avery, Sally--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Painting.
• Sheaffer, Louis, interviewer.
• Women artists--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984